check out Bridget Heinsches "Fast and Feast", as well as any photos of illos of medieval people eating (this is the ONE good thing about Cosmans "Fabulous Feasts", the pictures!!! ignore the recipes. they're nasty and not authentic.)

The Babees Boke is good, as is the Boke of Kervyng (sp). I believe the Carving book is on the web somewhere, but I'm danged if I know where. CHeck out the Medieval and Rennassance FOod home page at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html. An SCA source but one of the better ones out there.

hope this helps! good for you for looking one step beyond,....most folks dont pay attention to those details much

--AM

The research is mostly an outgrowth of having gone to alot more SCA feasts over the past year, being really tired of the Martha Stewart look, and trying to build a convincing argument for what should be on the table.

You don't *like* the color coordinated paper table cloths???

You don't *like* the pumpin soup served out of a charming pumpkin soup tureen???

You don't *like* the candles decoratively stuck in the bread and fruit centerpieces???

You don't *like* the Enya music playing in the background???

You don't *like* the merangue mushrooms on the chocolate yule log they served for dessert???

And just what the heck is wrong with pizza, anyway????? (Bringing the box into the hall couldn't be helped, after all!)

What a poo you are Anna??? What the heck is WRONG with you???

Gwen (hitching up her skirts and dashing madly for the exit, accompanied by a hail of rotten vegetables and offal)